Displaying items 73-84 of 1171
» View wsbt.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-98
•
Next >
-
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly meets Dennis Rodman
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down Thursday for a rare meeting with an American – the pierced, provocative former basketball star Dennis Rodman, according to media reports. Rodman reportedly chatted with Kim as they sat side by side at a...Tags: Vice (movie), North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Travel, Harlem Globetrotters
-
Green Day's 'American Idiot' Comes To The Bushnell
The Hartford CourantTom Kitt remembers seeing punk-pop group Green Day for the first time. He was a student at New York's Columbia University in the '90s and saw them in concert on MTV. "I just knew they were special," he says over a lunch interview in Manhattan recently....Tags: The Beatles (music group), Lobbying, Billy Joel, Diablo Cody, Tony Awards
-
As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers
WESTFIELD, Mass. — The envelope factory where Lisa Weber works is hot and noisy. A fan she brought from home helps her keep cool as she maneuvers around whirring equipment to make her quota: 750 envelopes an hour, up from 500 a few years ago....
Tags: Labor Markets, Unemployment, Justice System, Media Industry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Garcetti has a side commitment: the U.S. Naval Reserve
If he manages to get elected, Eric Garcetti may be the first mayor of Los Angeles who slips away for a little clandestine activity at a secret locale — and doesn't mind if his constituents find out about it. The city councilman and mayoral...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Congress, Local Elections, Jeff Gorell
-
Former Enron CEO may have his prison sentence shortened
Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling, who is serving a 24-year prison sentence for his part in the collapse of the energy giant, could win an early release under a possible deal with the Justice Department. Skilling was convicted in 2006...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. Supreme Court, Economy, Business and Finance, WorldCom Incorporated, Bankruptcy
-
North Korea could stumble from bluster to war
Beneath a map depicting the battle plan for “Target Mainland U.S.,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is shown in state propaganda photos being briefed by his generals on preparations for attacks on Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast....Tags: North Korea, Media Industry, Kim Jong Un, Park Geun-hye, Kim Jong Il
-
Tuition.io helps manage all student loans in one place
After graduating from Columbia University in the height of the recession and acquiring $120,000 in debt, including 12 student loans from seven servicers, Brendon McQueen was left with a film degree and a six-month grace period before his first loan...
Tags: Credit Ratings, Students, Colleges and Universities, Loans, Teaching and Learning
-
Inside 'The Magic Circle,' a fictional game blurs reality and ritual
Muriel Spark understood better than most novelists the peculiar fascination of hermetic worlds. She set "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in a Scottish girls day school, "The Abbess of Crewe" in a convent run like the C.I.A. and her last novel, "The...Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors, Colleges and Universities, Morningside Heights, Literature
-
SITI's Cafe Variations Comes to Fairfield Friday, March 1
Earlier this month the Mabou Mines company descended upon Wesleyan University with its brash rearrangement of Tennessee Williams texts, tempered with Grand Guignol horror-theater posturings. On March 1 at 8 p.m., another vaunted New York-based...Tags: George Gershwin, Arts and Culture, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), Hartford Stage, Colleges and Universities
-
Boys in the back of the class
Every year millions of well-intentioned American kids show up for kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some can't even tell you their complete name, let alone spell any of it. That's enough reason for me to believe "high-quality...
Tags: Schools, Sociology, State of the Union Address, Minority Groups, Authors
-
Special Report: Class struggle - How charter schools get students they want
ReutersGetting in can be grueling. Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for...Tags: Social Security, Washington, DC, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest, American Enterprise Institute
-
Overcrowded ERs, PTSD signs tied in heart patients
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being treated for a heart attack in a crowded emergency department may be linked to developing symptoms of a stress disorder, according to a new study. The study does not prove crowded ERs cause stress disorders, but the...Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Symptoms, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Research
Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 24, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Apr 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 31, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| WTXX-LTV
Feb 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 18, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Feb 12, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Original site for Columbia University topic gallery.